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New York: The Viking Press, 1958.
First edition of this classic of American West literature. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed byContinue reading "Warlock."
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
First edition of the author’s first regularly published book. Octavo, original maroon cloth. One of 990 numbered copies printed, this is number 912. Association copy, signed and inscribed by the author on the title page with a four-line stanza from his poem White Stag, Black Bear, “…We called the autumn night his lair, Yet knewContinue reading "First Poems."
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Scott.
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New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.
First edition of O’Brien’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tim O’Brien on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Photograph by Susan Futterman. An exceptional example.
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1953.
First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by the author “from Ian Fleming” on a card mounted to the front free endpaper.
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New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe - New Haven, 1828.
First edition of pioneering lexicographer Noah Webster’s monumental American Dictionary, arguably the most popular American book ever published and one of only 2500 copies printed. Thick quarto, bound in three quarter polished calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, engraved portrait of Webster after Samuel F.B. Morse, unpaginated text in tripleContinue reading "An American Dictionary of the English Language."
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New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1953.
First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grace James.
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London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.
First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
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Albany: Joel Munsell, 1861.
Limited edition of Shea’s important history of the early explorers of the Mississippi, printed for subscribers. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Bradford 4933; Field 1395; Sabin 80003. Provenance: from the library of American businessman James Phinney Baxter (1831-1921) of Portland, MaineContinue reading "Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi, by Cavelier, Dt. Cosme, Le Sueur, Gravier, and Guignas."
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969.
First edition of “the first book that attempts to give them a substantial and realistic Oppenheimer biography” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “June 10, 1970 To Bob Walls- Who understands that the only knowledge is to know ourselves; and who, in so knowingContinue reading "The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer."
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New York: Random House, 1979.
Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s First Edition Signed
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Wein: Verlag Der "Welt", 1897.
First edition of Herzl’s popular politically-charged drama, written several years before Der Judenstaat and praised by Max Nordau and Sigmund Freud. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication opposite the title page, “Herrn Heinrich Steiner zur freundlichen Erinnerung Th. Herzl.” The recipient, Hungarian author and publisher HeinrichContinue reading "Das Neue Ghetto: Schauspiel in 4 Acten. [The New Ghetto: A Play in 4 Acts]."
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First English uncensored edition of soviet writer Anatoly Kuznetsov’s most acclaimed work in its complete, unredacted form. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “To Mr. M.G. Millard – with very best wishes, in appreciation for the invaluable help he has givenContinue reading "Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel."
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New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997.
First edition of this collection of recipes by Hazan. Quarto, original glossy boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs by Alison Harris. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Doris best wishes! Marcella Hazan.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Joel Avirom.
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927.
First edition of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt decorations to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with decorations by Ernest Shepard. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper.
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968.
First edition of the re-issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Czeslaw Milosz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman. Author photograph by Thomas Victor.
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London: Printed for David Henry; and sold by Francis Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1769.
First complete edition of “the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America” (PMM), inscribed by Benjamin Franklin to prominent Pennsylvania Quaker and merchant Thomas Livezey, Jr. Quarto, bound in full contemporary calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins. IllustratedContinue reading "Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Copper Plates."
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London: Putnam, 1934-1940.
First edition in English of the major epic of Soviet literature and one of the first works of Soviet literature to be translated into English. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth. And Quiet Flows the Don is very good in a good dust jacket. The Don Flows Home To The Sea is very good inContinue reading "And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home To The Sea."
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New York: Brentano's, Publishers, 1925.
First edition of Vanderbilt’s account of his 1924 three-month summer cruise aboard the diesel yacht Ara. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with plates and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To C. M. … from W. K. Vanderbilt June 26th 1925.” In very goodContinue reading "Across The Atlantic With Ara, Summer of 1924."
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Camden, New Jersey: Author's Edition [Walt Whitman], 1882.
The Author’s edition of the most important and influential volume of poetry written in America; one of probably fewer than 100 copies produced with the inclusion of the “sexual odes” at Whitman’s insistence. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with two full-page engraved portraits of Whitman at different ages. Boldly signed by Walt Whitman on theContinue reading "Leaves of Grass."
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New York : Random House, 1968.
First edition of this work, basis for Alan Arkin’s stunning 1971 feature directorial debut. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alan Arkin on the half-title page, “Best Wishes to Adrienne From Alan Arkin.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Jules Feiffer.
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New York: Random House, 1960.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Styron on the title page. Fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
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London: William Heinemann, 1939.
First English edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
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New York: Macmillan and Co, 1886.
First American edition of one of James’s “three formidable novels” published in the 1880s along with The Bostonians and The Tragic Muse. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In near fine condition, name opposite the half-title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.
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Herzl, Theodor.
Kuznetsov, Anatoly. Translated by David Floyd .
Franklin, Benjamin.
Sholokhov, Mikhail. Translated by Stephen Gary.
